Thursday, September 16, 2010

Season 2 Continued


We retreated this last weekend. It was retreatful. We did some good reflection, some good goal/expectation conversations, ate some good food, had a sweet dunk contest and game of 500, and sat by the fire and talked quite a bit. We did some low ropes, and some low rope challenge feats. We pretty much nailed it. Seriously, though, everyone that had done stuff like that before kept saying “we are making this look really easy” and “we are doing this so fast.” If we could do those as a group competitively or for money we would have a great way of raising funds for the house.

And we all got along and didn’t revert to our caveman ancestry by hitting each other with blunt objects and yelling inaudibly when we struggled.


On ourselves individually, this year we are going to try setting goals/rules for ourselves that the rest of the community is aware of. The purpose of this, of course, is for us to be able to judge one another and tell each other where we didn’t measure up at the end of the year.


Oh, wait, that’s wrong. It’s actually so that we can have a little communal accountability but more importantly some communal encouragement as we each figure out how we can grow and be transformed this year.


On ourselves as a group, we are doing our lectionary and prayer together right after supper every night. So far it has been fun to eat supper together, do the lectionary and prayers together, and then have dessert together. If there’s dessert, that is. If not, most will scrounge for a cookie or ice cream. Dessert together. Maybe we in light of this routine we will need some cardio together.


Keep reading in the next couple weeks so you can meet all of our residents!


1 comment:

Mr. C.C. said...

I know Molly Read and Thomas Friesen from when I went to Gateway Covenant Church. Good times, good times.

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